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This week I was sick, so it was a bit of a write0off week, however I still did a lot! On Tuesday of last week it was my day off. My friends from work and I decided to have dinner together (of course on our one day off we all go into work). I had the grilled seafood platter! (Oysters Natural, Oysters Kilpatrick, Morton Bay Bugs, King Prawns, Prawns cutlets, Whole Crab, Calamari, Fish Filet and Mussels in a Napoli chilli sugo...... aka AMAZING!). Then we bounced around the restaurants neighboring us: some drinks here, some desert there, some more food for Brianna because once I eat a lot I always get hungry again after. We formed a little group and met up with Trish. Trish and I being the tourist we are were brought to ... read more

lemonade = sprite, lemonade is what then? i have no idea how to describe it to ask. Lemon/lime squash is what? oh its like a lift.... Whats a lift? oh its like a lemonade soda.... so like lemonade? no thats sprite! And I tried a lift... not lemonade. So i have no clue. Id like a lemon lime bitter please... uh okay? I ask what it is and im told its just a soft drink with this in it (i smell the bottle and its like PURE RUBBING ALCOHOL). Apparently its like a mocktail. You just put a drop in for the taste. And if im having this much trouble with the pop.. im mean soda...soft drinks? Imagine how hard the beers and wines and everything else is WITH THEIR ACCENTS TOO. And ACCENTS! every single ... read more

That's it, that's all folks! Today we were able to go out! And that means I completed all the dives and certifications i set out to do! All the dives today were on nitrox, my first time using it and it was pretty cool. The first dive was my deepest dive yet at 101 feet (everyone else went 100feet...) on a wreck called 'Captain Dan" and it was a beauty of a wreck!. Huge! With all kinds of cabins and hallways (theres a bunch of youtube videos of it). We didnt penetrate the wreck but I would love you go back again and see the inside. I was with my original dive buddies, Mark and Jim, who both snapped some pictures of the dives, so those will be posted when I get them. Both Mark ... read more

Working for the weekend! I haven't dove again this week, however I have accomplished a fair amount. On Monday evening (after a day full of studying), I successful complete my first dive certification! A dive certification I actually wasn't planing on having, Enriched Air, also know as "Nitrox". The air in a regular diving tank is the same as the air we breath only compressed; 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen. Breathing nitrogen under pressure means your body is accumulating it in your body and this is why there is a limited amount of time a diver can stay at a certain depth and why divers must wait a calculated amount of time between dives in order for the nitrogen to leave the body. Nitox is a difference percentage mix between oxygen and nitrogen and specifically ... read more